Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-02-12

tAOu VI tAc SAJ WAuuON5 were OcCupleu by people m dishabille, curious to see the unusual phenomenon. Every pass ing vehicle was greeted by groups of young people with showers of snowballs and windows in the street cars were badly damaged. Street car travel was interrupted to some extent early Tn the day owing to snow on the tracks, other wise no inconvenience or damage re- suited. The snow was vet and soon after 1t ceased falling began melting rapidly and IS now fast disappearing.
 NEW YORK, Feb 5.-Caulkers and ioiners st work repairing the Wy andotte, an Old Dominion steamer that was damaged by the explosion of sn internal machine. have struck. They had no grievances but struck out ot sympathy wifh the freight handlers. Thelr places will be filled to-day by non-unlon men. The eoopers employed along the piers with the mill vrights have joined the strike. Painters and mechanics on the Guion line have also struck. The Italians who took the places of the strikers at the Hudson river depot have quit work. The Lehigh valley Co.,. has closed its pier gates The Pennsylvania and Jer- sey Central and in fact all other piers along the river front are blocked and much difficulty is had in moving freight.
 TROY. N. r., Feb 5.-It is reported here that l6 persons were killed by &C., cident last night on the Vermont Cen tral road near White River Junction.
 PIrTsBURG, Feb. 5.-Lsst night ds- tectives Hohenay and Hulligsn. of Cleye- land. left home, having in charge Harry McMunn, charged with complicity Tn an extensive fur robbery, in that place, amounting to ten thousand dol lars. When the train reached Alliance, Ohio, five men got aboard and when Rs- wanna was reached made 6 concentrated attack on the detectives with a view to rescue the prisoner. A desperate fight ensued and one of the detectives, Hulli- gan. received seven bullet wounds and Hohenay five. Some of the ssssilants were also wounded. The rescuers sue ceeded in escaping with McNunn. Both detectives were sent to Cleveland. They are still living but are not expected to recover.
 BEBLIS, February 5-Upvsrds of sev- enty thousand men belonging to the re Serve forces have been called out for l2 days for the purpose of being drilled with the new repeating rifle the whole army IS being supplied with.
 CINCISSArI, February 5-The river at 10 o'clock this morning had reached stage of fiity-six feet and one inch, winch was a rise in the past nine hours, of five inches. The diminutlOn on the rate, IS encouraging, especially as there is yet no rain, but with a cloudy sky and the thermometer RDove 32, there IS stIll ground for apprehension. The rise as 1t IS now, causes serious inconvenience 10 the railroads, and Co river transports- ton, besides interfering with many mBnuiscturies on the river front. Every additional foot of increase magnifes the loss.
 NEW YORK, February "A commit tee of the State Legislature to investi- gate the coal handlers strike met to-day and listened to the evidence of a mum b, T of strikers. Their evidence vas con- current to the general effect that top men could earn about SZS per month and trimmers about $40. That trim ming Is highly injurious to the lungs, necessitsting heavy outlays for medi- cines, and causing death in s few years, tiGs the coal companies take from b to 25 per cent cut of their wages for col lecting the money due them from the captains of the boats loaded; that the same deduction is made when the boats loaded belong to the company itself They considered this an unnecessary charge and asserted the necessity of an advance in order to enable them to sup port their families.
 CONCORD. N. R.. February 5.-The eI- press train that left Boston st seven last night met with terrible accident near Woodstock. When about two hundred yards sOuth Of the end of the deck of She bridge a broken rail was struck, the locomotive, baggage car and sleepers brohqe away from the rest of the train. passing over the bridge instantly. The rest of the train wHs thrown from the rails ard continued on the roadbed until 1t came near the end of the bridge, but there it ran over the abutment and all of the cars fell into White rIver some fifty feet down. The gorge at this point IS frightful, and when the cars went down there was a terrible crash. As soon as possible the detached part of the tram was stopped and ran back Co the scene of the disaster. The screams of the injured were heRrtrending. As sistsDce came from people m the vicin- ity, and every rYthiDg was done to rescue and relIeve the injured. Soon after help arrived, 1t was discovered that a fire bad started ID the first coach and the entire train was soon sblaze, thus adding new horror tO the frightful cat as.rophe. Those present were power less to stop the fire and devoted them selves entirely to attempting to rescue those imprisoned in the wreck. Fifty or sixty lives were lost.
 SAN FRANCISCO. February 5.-The schooner Greyhound, which arrived here from Tahiti to-day, brought the news of the wreck and total loss of the bark Astrican. on Melbourne Island, on the night of December l7th. The Astrican was bound for the United Kingdom from Astoria. All of the crew were saved. Ten of them arrived here on the Greyhound.
 CHARLESTON. s. C.. Feb. 5.-A tug ar rived here from the wreck of the schoon- CT F. W. Chase and reported the vessel under water and being lsshed by 6 tre- mendous sea. which prevents the sp- proach of other tugs or life boats. Three ot the crew were seen ID the rigging. No other persons were visible.